"I heard my neighbor's daughter scream and start to cry. I stopped what I was doing, ran out with a stick, and sure enough she had been bitten on the knee and bitten on the elbow. The dog was roaming around challenging anything and everything," Lackides said.

Jared Kropp tried to get the pit bulls off the street but he was also attacked.

"It definitely was a little shocking. I got bit by two dogs at the same time," Kropp said.

One neighbor called 911 to report that dangerous dogs were on the loose. When a firefighter arrived to help victims, one pit bull lunged at the firefighter and bit him as well, Fire Chief Stacie Brownlee said.

"As a last resort, he had to strike the animal with a firefighting implement. Upon doing so the animal was killed instantly," Brownlee said.

The second dog was euthanized at a Santa Cruz animal control center.

Carrie Federick said the pit bulls had escaped from their yard and behaved aggressively in the past. When she found out they got out again, she was angry with the owner.

"I know that he thinks they're nice, and they're nice to his kids, but they're not nice to the rest of the neighborhood," Federick said.